Think you’ve got your head wrapped around The Bean Trees? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Taylor describes a certain kind of quail by calling it:
"the type that looks like it has a moustache just like Groucho Marx's"
"the type that has one big feather spronging out of its head like a forties-model ladies' hat"
"the type that has a claw clonging out the back of each foot like a spur on a boot"
"the type that has a mark on its breast like a crooked Star Trek communicator"
Q. Taylor describes marriage as a state of:
being trapped in a gilded cage
being hogtied to one person for life
being barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen
being thrown into a pigsty with a bucketful of slops
Q. According to Taylor, who's the fellow who makes the Pittman County boys "look like the hand-me-down socks Mama brought home, all full of their darns and mends"?
Estevan
Hughes Walter
Paul McCartney
The wandering sock salesman
Q. After meeting Fei, La-Isha, and Timothy, Taylor starts calling "bean curds" something different. She calls them:
bean turds
bean birds
cheese curds
tempeh
Q. Taylor says of a certain someone: "Everything about him, even his teeth, were so perfect they could have come from a book about the human body." Who does she have on the brain?
Hughes Walter
Estevan
Angel Ruiz
Dwayne Ray